Prof. Regina T. Riphahn, Ph.D.

Regina T. Riphahn studied economics, business administration, and sociology at the Universities of Cologne, Sussex (U.K.), Bonn, Tennessee, and North Carolina. She received an M.B.A. at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (1990), and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her dissertation on disability retirement among German men (1995). She joined the University of Munich's economics department in 1995 and completed her post-doctoral habilitation on the dynamics of social assistance dependence in Germany (1999). 2000-2001 she taught at the University of Mainz (Germany) as an Associate Professor of Economic Policy and 2001-2005 she headed the statistics and econometrics group at the economics department of the University of Basel (Switzerland). Since April 2005 she holds the chair for Statistics and Empirical Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). Her research interests are in applied microeconometrics, personnel, labor, social policy, population, and health economics.

Regina T. Riphahn is a fellow of IZA (Institut Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn) and cesifo, and a research professor of DIW Berlin. She has published in journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Development Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Population Economics. Regina T. Riphahn was awarded several scholarships for studies in England, Spain, Chile, and the United States. She received a Fulbright grant, the University of North Carolina economics department's Lurcy Fellowship, and in 2000 a prize for the best paper written with the GSOEP data since 1984. She worked at the Central Bank of Chile (1989), The World Bank (1990), and as a research assistant at the Carolina Population Center (1991-1995). She served in the Swiss council of economic advisors, on the council of the European Society of Labour Economists (EALE, 2003-2009), as treasurer of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE, 2002-2008) and as a council member of the German Economic Association (2005-2016). She headed the scientific council of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (2005-2007), is the coordinator of the Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (since 2005), member of the German Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina (since 2007) and of the scientific advisory councils of the German Federal Ministry of Economics, of DIW Berlin, and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS, Vienna). She chairs the scientific advisory council of RWI Essen (since 2015). Between 2008 and 2014 she was a member of the Wissenschaftsrat (German Council of Science and Humanities) and chaired its scientific commission (2012-2014). Since 2014 she is an elected member and the chair of the German Data Forum (Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten). In 2017 she was elected Vice-President of the German Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina. Since 2018 she is member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of Academia Europaea.

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort. A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation, 2005, Journal of the European Economic Association 3(1), 120-143 (with Andrea Ichino) [ pdf-download ]

Are there Diverging Time Trends in the Educational Attainment of Nationals and Second Generation Immigrants? [former title: Dissimilation? The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants], 2005 Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik) 225(3), 325-346 [ pdf-download ]

Patterns of Welfare Dependence Before and After a Reform: Evidence from First Generation Immigrants and Natives in Germany, 2013, Review of Income and Wealth 59(3), 437-459, DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2012.00518.x (with Christoph Wunder) [ pdf-download ]

The Welfare Use of Immigrants and Natives in Germany: The Case of Turkish Immigrants, 2013, International Journal of Manpower 34(1), 70-82 (with Monika Sander and Christoph Wunder) [ pdf-download ]

Improvements in the Family Planning Service Environment in Tanzania: A Report Based on the 1991 and 1994 DHS Service Availability Modules, 1994, Evaluation Project Working Paper, Carolina Population Center (with Sylvester Ngallaba, Phil Bardsley, David K. Guilkey).

Disability Retirement Among German Men in the 1980s, 1995, unpublished dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.